My Firebird 2.5 data cannot be opened with LibreOffice 5.3

Firebird has been upgraded to version 3.0.0. It is unable to read back Firebird 2.5 data, so embedded firebird odb files created in LibreOffice version up to 5.2 cannot be opened with LibreOffice 5.3. Since a future version of firebird will have a backwards compatibility module, some future version of LibreOffice (embedding this future version of firebird) will also be able to open these older files.

Embedded firebird switched to Firebird's "archive" format, which is version and endianness independent, so this issue won't happen again.

ODB files created by LibreOffice < 5.3 can be manually converted to LibreOffice 5.3 format by using Firebird 2.5 to convert the data to archive format, and replacing the database data within the ODB by the archive format version. To do this, install a stand-alone Firebird 2.5, and use its "gbak" tool to convert the file "database.fdb" to "database.fbk" within the odb file. Don't forget to remove the .fdb file.

Tools

Please note that all contributions to The Document Foundation Wiki are considered to be released under the [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License], unless otherwise specified. This does not include the source code of LibreOffice, which is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License ([http://www.libreoffice.org/download/license/ LGPLv3]). "LibreOffice" and "The Document Foundation" are registered trademarks of their corresponding registered owners or are in actual use as trademarks in one or more countries. Their respective logos and icons are also subject to international copyright laws. Use thereof is explained in our [[TradeMark Policy|trademark policy]] (see [[Project:Copyrights]] for details). LibreOffice was based on OpenOffice.org.If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly and redistributed at will, then do not submit it here.